Upcoming Trainings

Upcoming Trainings

CERRA is proud to offer trainings for teachers who will be serving as mentors for beginning teachers (SC Mentor Training) and trainings for those who will be training mentors (SC Trainer Certification Training). Below you will find a list of our upcoming training opportunities. If you are interested in hosting a training in your district, please call Jan Patterson at 803.323.4032x6409

​Upcoming SC Mentor Trainings

The two-day South Carolina Mentor Training focuses on the knowledge, skills, and understandings critical to those who work with beginning teachers. It is guided by the belief that learning to teach is a career-long developmental process that involves a continuous cycle of planning, teaching, and reflecting. At the heart of this work is the mentor’s ability to respond to each new teacher's individual developmental and contextual needs and to promote the ongoing examination of classroom practice. Teachers interested in serving as a mentor must:​

hold a valid South Carolina professional educator certificate;

have a minimum of one year of successful teaching experience in South Carolina at the continuing contract level;

be either a current practitioner or have been employed in a South Carolina public school system within the past five years; and

have the recommendation of a school administrator and the district's Induction and Mentoring Coordinator.​

December 3-4, 2019The SCEA | 421 Zimalcrest Drive | Columbia, SC 29210Participants MUST contact their district's I&M Coordinator and receive the code before they will be allowed to register.

Upcoming South Carolina

Trainer ​Certification Trainings

The comprehensive, two-day Trainer Certification is an advanced training that prepares mentors to be effective mentor trainers in their schools and districts.

To participate in Trainer Certification, mentors must have previously completed the three-day South Carolina Foundations in Mentor Training and the Online Update Training or the new two-day South Carolina Mentor Training. Participants also must:

have served as a mentor for at least one academic year;

received successful performance reviews as a teacher and have served successfully as a mentor for at least one academic year;

and been recommended for advanced mentor training by the building principal and the district’s Induction and Mentoring Coordinator.

December 10-11, 2019The SCEA | 421 Zimalcrest Drive | Columbia, SC 29210Participants MUST contact their district's I&M Coordinator and receive the code before they will be allowed to register.